Teachers’Characteristics and Teaching Styles as Determinants of Students’Achievement in Senior Secondary Schools Civics and English Language in Osun State,Nigeria

The study examined the status of senior secondary schools’students’achievement in Civic Education and English Language in Osun State.It also investigated the Civic Education and English Language teachers’characteristics in the state and determined the teaching styles of Civic Education and English Language teachers in the study areas and finally assessed the influence of teachers’characteristics and teaching styles on students’achievement in secondary schools Civic Education and English Language.The study adopted Discriminant Analysis.The study sample consisted of 600 senior secondary school students,30 Civics teachers,and 30 English Language teachers that were selected using multi-stage sampling procedure.Four instruments were constructed and validated before use.Three research questions were asked and answered while one hypothesis was tested and verified.The results among others showed that more than 50%of the students that participated in the study had high status of achievement in Civic Education while more than 40%of English Language students that participated in the study had low status of achievement.The study also showed that teachers’characteristics pertinent to both Civic Education teachers and English Language teachers were,effective discipline skills(Civics,M=1.20,SD=0.407;English,M=1.40,SD=0.498)and good communication with parents(Civics,M=1.43,SD=0.504;English,M=1.40,SD=0.498).In addition,there was significant influence of teachers’characteristics and teaching styles on students’achievement in Civics and English Language in senior secondary schools(X^2(2)=16.37,p<0.05).The study concluded that teachers’characteristics and teaching styles are major determinants of students’achievement in Civic Education and English Language.

A Study of International Chinese Language Teachers’Stereotypes of International Students

Teachers’stereotypes of students affect teaching behaviour.Correctly perceiving stereotypes of international students helps teachers to understand the student population more deeply and adopt effective teaching behaviour.This study focuses on the stereotypes of international Chinese language teachers towards international students in Chinese universities and its impact on teachers’classroom management and students’classroom performance.Summarizing the findings,we conclude that international Chinese language teachers have both positive and negative stereotypes of the international student body,and that negative stereotypes account for more than positive stereotypes.On this basis,this study further discusses the importance of international Chinese language teachers being aware of the existence of stereotypes of international students,and makes suggestions to strengthen the positive influences and weaken the negative ones.

Students' and Teachers' Perspectives towards the Use of L1(Mandarin) in EFL Classroom

In the context of China, the maximum use of English is promoted at governmental administrative levels to create effective learning policies(Van & Zhao, 2010) However, during the actual teaching process, the rules are frequently broken by teachers. Hence in order to gain a better understanding of the issue in Chinese senior high school context, the present research seeks to examine teachers' and students' attitudes and beliefs with respect to their perceived functions and effects in incorporating L1 in classrooms. In accordance with previous literature, The research indicated positive role of L1, especially in enhancing students' understanding of difficult concepts and creating comfortable learning environment. In addition, it is notable that, in difference from other studies, the National College Entrance Examination has exercised considerable influence on the perceptions of participants.

Application of the Politeness Principle in the Teachers-Students Communication

In daily communication between teachers and students,many Chinese teachers fail to use politeness principle tactfully or appropriately.This article analyzes some basic principles of politeness and their application in teachers-students communication.

The Effect of Language Proficiency on the Teaching Knowledge Acquisition of English Student Teachers——Comparison of Three Repetitive Lessons

Based on the framework of classroom teaching learning process analysis, this study explores the relationship between language proficiency and the acquisition of teaching knowledge in the sample of three English repetitive lessons in senior high school by two English student teachers. After quantitative and qualitative analysis, it was found that the higher the level of language, the greater the improvement of teaching knowledge;the student with high language level has made rapid progress in teaching design, slow progress in teaching management and student learning, while the progress of the student with low language level is slow in all aspects. This study has important reference value for pre-service foreign language teacher education.

An Analysis of the Relationship between Output Corpus and Language Output Function

The study is to verify the relationship between the output corpus and language output function and to test the three func-tions of pushed output. It attempts to give some implications for non-English major and English-learning. The results show that theoutput corpus is related to language output function.

Teacher's Nonverbal Immediacy Behavior in the Classroom and Its Effect on Teacher-Student Relationship

本文主要研究课堂上教师的非语言行为,主要阐述教师在课堂上充分利用非语言行为可促进师生关系的改善。

Kindergarten Teachers’Language Modeling Behaviors in Daily Activities and Free Play

Teachers’language modeling behaviors,including frequent conversation,open-ended questions,repetition and extension,self-and parallel talks,and advanced language,have significantly impacted young children’s language learning and development.This study examined 60 classrooms from 20 kindergartens in Guangzhou,China,and analyzed 62 films of daily activities and 57 videos of free play.It aims to address the research gap in existing research that pays little attention to teachers’language modeling behaviors in daily activities and free play.The results indicate that the more frequent teachers’language modeling behaviors,the larger the vocabulary young children use and the better their performance in lexical richness.However,such behaviors in daily activities and free play are infrequent and superficial,failing to guide young children’s language development effectively.To optimize teachers’language modeling behaviors in daily activities and free play,they are expected to establish positive emotional bonds with young children in a kind and respectful manner and receive training.Teachers are also encouraged to frequently communicate and engage in dialogues with young children,create contexts that facilitate the use of language,increase the frequency of stimuli for vocabulary learning,and guide and encourage young children’s advanced language.

Foreign Language Classroom Discourse Analysis

This paper reviews some works done to classroom discourse analysis and summaries some peculiarities of foreign language classroom discourse.Some strategies are proposed for the teachers to activate students into communicative teaching activities in classroom for the purpose of improving college English teaching and learning.

Learner Choice in Language Study

Learner centered design programs typically focus on analyzing the needs of students or encouraging more students to participate in classroom activities.This paper argues that the real learner centered approach should consider allowing learners to play a greater role in learning management,learning methods and learning opportunities by providing selection for the learners.This opportunity can be introduced into the traditional classroom with minimize the problems.The learner's choice as a more basic aspect of language curriculum can be provided by establish autonomous learning center.Teachers'and learners'attitudes to the centre are discussed,and it is suggested that we should do more things to guide both teachers'and learners'expectations in order to make learner choices an active feature of foreign language study.

Educating for Citizenship： A Case Study of Brazilians of Japanese Descendent in Public Schools in Japan

The current work presents a support tutoring program on the Japanese language applied to 12 newly arrived Brazilian students who moved to Japan after their parents migrated in order to work in electronic factories. All of them were not able to speak Japanese, even the greetings; during lunch time they also had to eat some types of food they had never had before. Certainly, it was a daily battle against the unknown as they interfaced between two very different cultures. This support tutoring program was implemented in a Japanese public school in Taiwa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, and it aimed to create an adequate environment that could provide a teaching-learning process in the cognitive, emotional, and social aspects to prepare the students to live in Japan, as well as to prepare them for their return to Brazil in the future.

Students' English Learning Anxiety in Senior High School

Since 1970s,the research on second language acquisition has been developed with times.The research focus of lLanguage teach ing has shifted from the study of how to teach students to how to learn for students,with particular attention to explore the influence that students'psychological factors such as learning motivation,learning attitude and learning anxiety have on learning outcomes.Among those emotional variables,anxiety is considered to be one of the most critical psychological variables.English classroom anxiety is different from the ordinary classroom anxiety and receives much attention from scholars.Horwiz(1986) pointed out that foreign language anxiety is a unique phenomenon in language learning.In China,English learning in senior high school is a very important period.It is a common phenomenon to see students behaving anxiously in the English class.Therefore,the anxiety in the English class of senior high school de serves attention.This paper will analyze the main reasons of students'anxiety and points out several effectively methods to relieve their anxiety so as to enhance English classroom teaching and learning effect.

How to Train Learning Strategies in Your Students

To learn a something well is a way of learning how to learn effectively,therefore,the term "learning strategies" is put to the frontier in order to draw learners' attentions.Being distinct from learning method,learning strategies has much more significant and long-term process,which needs the mutual reaction between teachers and students.This essay is about the role of learning strategies and how teachers are supposed to train this skill in their students in terms of their different leaning styles so that students can form a good habit and enhance their learning efficiency.

Art of Stimulating Interest in Oral English Teaching

English is a tool for communication.English teaching aims are to nurture the students’ability to use this language.This ability is mainly reflected by their spoken ability.So the training of spoken-English-Expression ability is obviously impor tant.This article discusses spoken English teaching methods from two aspects.The first aspect consists of the students’interest in speaking English out,making good use of the artistic methods to correct students’mistakes and comparing the culture between China and Western countries.The main point in this aspect is reflected on classroom-teaching,it contains using concrete objects to enrich teaching content;using body language to stimulate the students interest.The second aspect is to make the students have the positive attitude towards by establishing a harmonious teacher-student relationship.Spoken-English teaching is of value in the whole English teaching procedure.Through using this methods,the teachers can improve the ability of English expression arouse the students’enthusiasm,in the meanwhile,the teachers can transmit the knowledge to the students in a relaxed atmo sphere.Therefore,it is advantageous to improve students’English ability.

智慧课堂能够促进课堂互动吗?——来自行为序列分析的经验证据

充分的课堂互动是激发学生学习主动性和自主性,培养学生高阶思维能力和提升教学质效的重要途径。以安徽省蚌埠市某高校2022—2023年度第一、二学期的核心专业课教学过程为对象进行准自然实验,通过互动行为编码和序列分析,探讨智慧课堂环境对师生互动行为的影响。研究显示:与传统多媒体课堂相比,智慧课堂中教师发起的主动谈话频率显著下降,教师的观察和指导行为以及技术操作和测试方面的活动频率显著增加;智慧课堂中的学生主动谈话和行动频率显著增加,被动行为频率显著减少;智慧课堂通过激发更丰富的学生主动行为和教师被动行为,有助于提升学生学习的主体性和积极性。

高校师生信息焦虑的状况及应对

为了解高校师生的信息焦虑状况,把握当前高校师生信息焦虑特征,快速识别风险人群并开展干预,在已有研究基础上完善高校师生信息焦虑量表,收集有效问卷1607份,并分析高校师生在疫情不同阶段的信息焦虑程度和维度及其转变。总体上高校师生中度及重度信息焦虑占比约为64.1%,在信息检索、信息加工和信息利用维度均值较高。大学生信息焦虑各维度均值在不同阶段均高于高校教师。进入2023年之后,高校教师信息焦虑程度有所减轻,各维度均值有所下降,但大学生重度信息焦虑占比显著增加,且各维度均值都显著增加。高校可为不同群体提供有侧重的引导,加强对重度信息焦虑的干预,重视信息检索、加工和利用维度的提升。

国际中文教师课堂非言语行为规范:指标体系与量化分析

研究首次构建了《国际中文教师课堂非言语行为测量指标体系》,该指标体系把国际中文教师课堂非言语行为细分为体态语、副语言、服饰仪表语、工具语、空间语和时间语6大类,一级指标共27个,二级指标共为86个,这6类86个指标承载着29种功能,并配套独立的6个观测量表及使用说明。文章整合十多年的研究成果,分别总结列举了课堂体态语和副语言行为个案量化指标的研究范例,熟手教师和新手教师体态语行为群体量化指标的比较研究范例,以及三组不同国别留学生对教师服饰仪表语的研究范例,为全面分析国际中文教师课堂非言语行为提供了科学规范、便捷实用的研究工具和样本。

护生视角下临床护理教师课程思政与有效教学行为评价

目的 了解护生对临床护理教师课程思政和有效教学行为的评价,为深入开展课程思政、改善临床教学行为提供依据。方法 采用临床护理教师课程思政评价调查表和临床护理教师有效教学行为问卷对158名结束实习的本科护生进行调查。结果 临床护理教师开展课程思政率仅为48.1%,有效教学行为问卷总均分(5.56±1.30)分,各维度得分由高到低依次为人际关系、对护生评价、专业水平、个性特征、教学水平。课程思政组有效教学行为及各维度得分均高于未实施课程思政组(均P<0.01)。结论 护生对临床护理教师课程思政评价低,教师课程思政内容、方式等方面均需改进;对教师有效教学行为评价中等偏上。以专业能力为基础选拔临床护理教师,建立持续、动态培训、激励机制,科室成立教学团队,凝练课程思政内容并全程融入带教过程,有助于临床护理教师有效教学行为的形成。

临床护理教师教学行为与护生职业获益感的相关性研究

目的了解临床护理教师教学行为与护生职业获益感现状,分析两者之间的相关性。方法采用临床护理教师有效教学行为问卷和护士职业获益感量表对140名毕业前护生进行问卷调查。结果护生职业获益感量表得分为(93.18±16.43)分,临床护理教师有效教学行为问卷总均分为(5.65±1.24)分。临床护理教师教学行为及个性特征、临床胜任力、教学能力、对护生评价、人际关系维度均与职业获益感呈正相关关系,个性特征是职业获益感的独立影响因素。结论护生职业获益感水平中等,临床护理教师教学行为总体处于中等偏上水平,两者呈正相关关系。要关注延长学制护生群体,多措并举改善临床护理教师的教学行为,带教过程中融入人文关怀,提升护生职业获益感,稳定准护理人才队伍。

“新科技汉语”的创新要求及教学应对

“新科技汉语”是“人工智能+”背景下科学应用科技方法和手段的国际中文,要求“中国”“汉语”“教学”与“科技”元素高度融合,具有全领域性和全链条性,是国际中文教育服务“教育强国、科技强国、人才强国”的新亮点,具有强大的生命力和发展前景。面对新质变化,可以实施以下应对:师生双向智能化转化,促进科技汉语人才的迅速发展;推进分专业、分等级的预科科技词汇及句式研究,创新科技词汇与句式的数智化教学;推进大语言模型的智能化应用,构拟“智能汉字动态教学模式”、建设“智能科技汉语数据库”、创建“智能科技汉语专题共享”、设置“科技汉语名家讲堂”等,以扎实创新国际中文的高质量发展。